Riverbed_Cascade_Executive_Overview.pdf

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2009 Riverbed Technology. Confidential. IMPORTANT NOTE: The roadmap is for information purposes only and is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation todeliver any new products, features or functionality. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at Riverbed's sole discretion.

Cascade IntroductionInfrastructure Wide Application Visibility


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What if I said you could

Controlthemixof

businessvs.nonbusiness

applications

Reducetroubleshooting

timesby

75%

Providecosteffective

regulatorycompliance

SaveonWANexpensesby

focusing

on

business

applicationneeds

Minimizethecostof

consolidationand

virtualtization

Sound unbelievable?


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What if I said you could

Retailserviceprovider

limits85%ofWANuseto

5criticalapplications

Globalhospitality

providerssavesmillions

implementingPCI

Internationalnews

company

saves

40%

by

eliminatingpeertopeer

Largeretailereliminates

needforexpensive

datacenterauditservices

Cablemediaprovider

reduces

MTTR

75%

saves

$316Kinoneevent

Cascade Makes It Possible


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Introducing RiverbedTM Cascade

Cascade gives IT organizations the visibility they need to significantlyreduce costs while assuring the performance of revenue generatingapplications.

With Cascade, you can:

Identify bottlenecks where optimization would best accelerate the business

Streamline troubleshooting to reduce the impact of service outages andslowdowns

Reduce the risks and costs associated with data center change


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Cascade components

Data Center

Web Tier

App Tier

DB Tier

DNSADNTP

Profiler:

Centralized reporting & analysisBehavioral analyticsCollects data from Sensors &

GatewaysSized based on flow per minutecapacity

Gateway:

Collects flow data from selectedsourcesSupports all flow typesDeployed with Profiler or

regionally

Sensor: (optional)

Layer 7 application classificationPerformance metrics collectionResponse Time, TCP healthCollects traffic from SPAN ports

or tapsDeployed in data center(s)

Cascade

Sensor

NOC CascadeProfiler &

Gateway


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Cascade analytics

Behavioral analytics Learns typical behavior patterns of users, applications and systems across the infrastructure

Alerts to meaningful changes that signal performance issues

Allows maximum performance monitoring with minimum time investment by expert personnel

Application analytics - response time, # of connections, bandwidth, QoS and TCP healthInterface analytics - total bandwidth, bandwidth by application, server, users or QoS


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Supported vendors / flow types

Cascade

Gateway

Packeteer FDR

IPFIX

sFlow

J-Flow

Enhanced

NetFlow

NetFlow

NetStreamNetFlow


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Gathers flow data from existing infrastructure and integrates with layer 7 information from Sensors

Learns typical behavior and performance of users, applications and infrastructure

Provides end-to-end visibility to delivery paths for critical business applications

Detects meaningful changes that signal performance or security issues

Pushes actionable information to users to streamline workflows

Mean time to value/implementation = 1 week

How Cascade works

Data Center

Web Tier

App Tier

DB Tier

DNSADNTP

Cascade

Sensor

NOC CascadeProfiler &

Gateway


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Need a business justif ication for further WAN optimization?

Can you prove the benefits of existing

optimization?

provide a prioritized list of mostcongested WAN links?

show which links carry criticalbusiness applications?

document how congestion

effects application responsetimes?

and document where and howfurther optimization will best

help expedite business?

Riverbed Cascade can:


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Need better visibility to application performance?

Can you measure end user application

response times?

distinguish between business andnon-business usage on http?

automatically baseline typicalperformance and only get alerts onmeaningful changes?

route alerts to the appropriategroup based on actionableinformation?

and resolve issues before users

call the help desk?



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Do you worry about the impact of data center change?

Canyou validate application

dependencies and usage withlive traffic?

identify low-utilization serverconsolidation candidates?

document which servers acttogether to provide a specific

application/service? identify the change window with

the lowest impact on businessservices?

and, minimize the riskassociated with data centermoves?



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2009 Riverbed Technology. Confidential. IMPORTANT NOTE: The roadmap is for information purposes only and is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation todeliver any new products, features or functionality. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at Riverbed's sole discretion. 12

User success stories

Business Challenge Operational Results User TestimonialCustomer

Ensure robust service

Lower mean time to repair(MTTR)

Significantly reduced MTTR

Manage WAN costs byanalyzing customer usage ofkey applications

Cascade has given us the

end-to-end application visibility

not found in our existing tools.

Vice President of IT

Proactively identify and resolvesecurity issues

Protection of private info vs.support of academic freedoms

Significantly reduced MTTR

Reduced unauthorized

scanning, eliminated rogueemail servers

I put my trust in Cascade and

it exceeded my every

expectation.CISO

Improve MTTR to reduce laborcosts

Understand traffic patterns ofbusiness critical applications

Reduced impact of servermoves and changes

Identified best candidate linksfor WAN optimization

Cascade Profiler has helped

us manage our infrastructure

efficiently.

Chief IT Architect


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Improve the business outcome of IT initiatives

WANManagementReducecostsbyidentifyingandminimizingcongestion

causedbynonbusinessusage

WANOptimizationPrioritizedeploymentsbyidentifyingwherebusinessapplicationdeliveryismostaffectedbycongestion

ApplicationPerformanceReducetroubleshootingtimeandrevenueimpactofdegradedserviceby75%

ReducedCAPEX

&

OPEX Reduce

existing

monitoring

hardware

deployments

by

20%

andfuturedeploymentsby80%

ServerConsolidationLeveragenetworktrafficstatisticstoidentifyunderutilizedresourcesthatarecandidatesforconsolidation

Data

Center

Change

Useautomateddiscoveryofapplication/server

dependenciesto

minimize

risk

of

service

impact

ComplianceReduceneedforandOPEXassociatedwithexistingandfutureintrusiondetectiondeployments

Immediate Cascade ImpactKey Init iative


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Thank you


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Appendix


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Cascade products

Note: No upgrades across series


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Pricing example solutions

Solution Size Approx.

Flow Rate

Approx. Cascade

Deal Size

Cascade

Components

10 Remote Sites1 Data Center

10,000 FPM $59.9K CAX-200-2TX

50 Remote Sites4 Data Centers

50K 100K FPM $315KCAP-21404 x CAS-2100-4TXCAG-2100-F2

200 Remote Sites4 Data Centers 300K 800K FPM $500K

CAP-41004 x CAS-2100-4TXCAG-2100-F3CAG-2100-F4

Automatic App. Monitoring1 App. across 50 sites

N/A $50K 2 x CAA-APP-ANA-30

Approx. flow rate= users per site x #sitesx20


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Introducing RiverbedTM Cascade

Cascade gives IT organizations the visibility they need to significantlyreduce costs while assuring the performance of revenue generatingapplications.

With Cascade, you can:

Achieve cost-effective compliance by leveraging existing data sources andminimizing the need for expensive hardware deployments

Identify bottlenecks where optimization would best accelerate the business

Streamline troubleshooting to reduce the impact of service outages andslowdowns

Reduce the risks and costs associated with data center change


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Need a more cost-effective compliance solution?

Can you leverage existing network gear for

intrusion detection?

define policies for who should be

accessing regulated assets? detect if unauthorized users start

sending data to external sites?

prove that only authorized users

accessed regulated assets in thelast year?

and do all this with 80% lessdeployed hardware?



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Cascade competitors cant*

apply analytics to alarm upon meaningful change from normal So they wont detect service and availability issues before calls come in

Be notified of what is abnormal with pushed out context

Scale build dependency and application delivery maps

So they have no automated way to understand who is impacted by aproblem

Issues take longer to resolve

It is challenging for them to spot dependencies that may be the actual root cause Level 1 operators can do little to triage the issue

Cant understand the impact of change

report on hosts beyond Top-N; offer no way to see N+1 detail

Large companies typical exceed N nodes and loose visibility as such (poor scale)

N+1 may be more revenue impacting but lower bandwidth than N-1

Bottom N represent ideal candidates to consolidate to save $


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Cascade competitors cant*

query for traffic between 2 end nodes, only across an interface This makes for very cumbersome triage - in particular you have to know (or keep

trying) to find what segment the problem is with. This IF to IF jumping around justto confirm what the problem is consumes valuable operator time.

enforce user defined policy So they cant deploy application service assurance policies

do layer-7 application fingerprinting

So the average 60% of traffic that all uses port 80 is the same to them Cant manage and optimize specific business applications


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Partner & Competitive Positioning - NetScout

When a prospect presents NetScout as a competitor, present thesecounterpoints. While NetScout does understand Riverbed optimizationprotocols, compared to Cascade it.

Requires a costly sensor at each and every remote site or future RSP support.

Is primarily a probe company, expensive to instrument, very limited flow support.

Cannot show the application delivery path, only a segment by segment view.

Has limited layer-7 support, and no support for URLs or custom applications.

Offers no alignment of probe data and flow data

Analytics are KPI focused and not application delivery focused.

Can only set policies limited to interface rates, not application delivery.

Has no notion of dependencies.


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Partner & Competitive Positioning - NetQos

When a prospect presents NetQoS as a competitor, present thesecounterpoints. Compared to Cascade, NetQoS

Does NOT understand Riverbed optimization protocols, and as suchoffers limited

visibility. Cannot show the application delivery path, only a segment by segment view.

Does not offer layer-7 application support; in fact calls IP+Port an application.

Does not offer URL application support.

Provides no correlation of probe data (SuperAgent) and flow data (ReporterAnalyzer).

Offers no analytics.

Can only set policies limited to interface rates, not application delivery.

Has no notion of dependencies. Indexes flow data by interface, not available as host or application views.

Is limited in scale by Top-N break out in reporting network activity.


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When a prospect presents OPNET as a competitor, present thesecounterpoints. Compared to Cascade, OPNET

Is a family of products with more complementary value that competitive

IT Guru - Network modeling and design Ace Analyst - Offline deep troubleshooting and transaction analysis

Panorama Agent based, transaction and server focused

Ace Live - End-user response time measurement and reporting

Isnt focused on application delivery management, rather transactionmonitoring.

Doesnt offer network behavior analysis which enable scale and reduces MTTR.

Requires costly sensors on every link to show WAN optimization benefits.

Is limited in scale by Top-Nbreak out in reporting network activity.

Cannot show the application delivery path, complicating troubleshooting.

Partner & Competitive Positioning - OPNET

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